(NOTE: for some of you hip hop fans, maybe you have never heard of Lady Sov or maybe you dont care….so just ignore this post. But you can still watch the trainwreck anyways. Either way, we can skip all the “who is this girl, who cares, i never heard of her,” etc. posts because of this disclaimer, lol)

obviously Lady Sov didnt turn out to be the big hip hop star that Jay-Z (or someone in his camp) thought she’d be over here in the States. I remember being irritated by all the hype surrounding her signing to Rocafella and thinking that it was just another gimmick reach…trying to jump on the grime bandwagon by folks who clearly wouldnt care about this artists’ actual market and then soon give up….but anyways…im getting off topic…..I still feel for the fact that she is obviously now suffering the fate of many artists who sign with major labels or celeb ceos and then get floated out to sea. Some artists are smart enough and mature enough to weather the storm because of their own support system and fan loyalty (see The Roots) but others end up breaking down on the stage of Brooklyn’s Studio B nightclub (which is like this weird grimy hipster haven) in front of a pissed off crowd.

Witness the latter….Lady Sov overshares about her depression, self-cutting?, bankruptcy, etc…….hey Hov, buy her a pair of “Ma-no-nos” or something…

poor little mc. c’mon now, every person that ever grabbed a mic on some real love shit, had to spit for nada. she needs to check her handlers and management if the money’s comin up funny. these lables over extend themselves trying to break these artists, and they end up broke. We all know the math it’s ’07 for christsakes. If you gotta suck it up, and put on a show so you don’t lose they few heads that came out to check you…then that’s what you gotta do love. Hov…stop backin this bullshit. You know when you were in the streets you wouldn’t cop that. damn. this was Def Jams chance to get off the slow roll and put out some good damn music. really aside from their legacy, def jam isn’t about hip hop music right now.

Miss info i’m a fan but i don’t appreciate the jokes you’ve said, in what is anything but funny. Being in the uk i know her stuff well and shes a talented gal, and i made sure i bought (not downloaded) her new cd etc supportin her. she makes good, different music and has always had this “i’ma do me, not change for the mainstream” sorta thing thoughout her lyrics and i wish her the best. Can’t wait til she bounces back, and tbh fuck them people booing as she walks off-y’all really got no sympathy?!!

I dunno what the hell Jay or whoever the f*@k it was in his camp was thinkin when they signed this girl. I aint hatin but when there’s so much real talent in the UK that deserves the attention that this girls been gettin from such a major label as Def Jam it pisses me off, im tellin u.
She aint regarded as nuttin over here in the UK so I dont know how the rass she could get recognized as anything but WAC in the US,
If the music I made was as stupid as her’s Id self harm 2.

When I heard that she was moving over to Def Jam I predicted that it wouldn’t work out. People in the US seemed to be under the misguided impression that Lady Sovereign was a huge/successful artist in the UK. She wasn’t! Nobody bought her music here, so I was baffled as to why Def Jam took her on board. Sovereign was already signed to the Universal group so I guess some executive thought “right we will move her to Def Jam, she’s bound to go down a storm stateside, and once people see that she is on Jay’s team the public will embrace her, and the albums will fly off the shelves!

WRONG!!!!

Its about time these label executives realized that we the music downloading public are not idiots!

Totally agree!
she was def. signed way 2 quickly and promoted totally wrong!
if they gave her the same machine they did with Rihanna maybe they would have had something really solid.
its really sad too see but also a cautionary tale of many,
or could it be a stategic media move ala lindsey lohan??

shes all over hype to me. She is something for the kids like will smith but it must be a tough work out over there this what lot of UK artists find in the USA there is barely a day when she is not on tour if you look at her link. is she too young for all that?
thats showbiz
shes still a wanna b spice girl
ps her link was a track with missy in there (em for a sec) see for yourself

yo, that was a gimmick the whole time. she was garbage on top of that. there is somebody in some small city in a state somewhere nobody goes visit right now thats way nicer than her but people choose to cosign that? if you are so broke and bankrupt, do the show, collect your 5-10k and do some more shows around the country. the road is where you make your money and show the people who you are up close and personal. only if A&R’s did their job.

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ATTN:MISSINFO–NUTHING BUT THE TRUTH SO HELP ME GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@bob holiday…dont be stupid. first of all its not speaking american, its speaking ENGLISH. on top of that, she is from england. you know, the country where america got its language from. you forgot that they sailed by boat here and then taught the natives how to speak it and made others speak it. its our accent that changed, not theirs. learn somethin.

@Cris….hahaha, I knew i didnt have to address that “speak american” thing….I knew one of you other readers would. But I was also partly hoping that bob holiday was just joking? no? sigh…
as for spinning Lady Sov, no we didnt but that doesnt mean that she wasnt dope. Theres alot of dopeness that will never see the mainstream airwaves….but her music always felt too gimmicky to me. “I’m tough, I’m short, I curse, notice me.” I miss the Cookie Crew : )

Info I just found you and I love what you do. Of course its a joke, kind of. American is the international language we speak here. English is how they talk in England. Also, she was like “fuck America”. What? Fuck that Limey bitch!!!

damn miss info ur right on the point about how shes begging for attention. speakin of begging for attention did u hear games new song dissing jay 50 and suge? he talks about jay suckin dick with his big lips and referring to him as his bitch. but back on topic. i wish lady sov the best. hopefully all goes well.

@miss info..hahaha yeah i couldnt let the “speak american” ride. just too ignorant and i dont think he was joking.
about lady sorryforherself, she was way too much of a gimmick. i remember my brother had told me about her and when i found out that young hov signed her i almost gave up on def jam. record labels are supposed to take chances and sign and develop talent that they think are hot but damn man, this? matter of fact miss info id rather listen to you sing than her try and spit. and yeah there are a few official people that wont be heard but thats no fault of the artist for the most part. there are just way to many egos in the game now. at one point in time DJ’s, radio personalities, a&r’s, even CEO’s would go seek out talent, they would give people chances, dj’s would give you a mixtape slot to prove yourself. now its like you have to kiss ass or payola your way into just getting your foot in the door. shit is not supposed to be like that. i just listened to a dude myspace on here the other day in one of your blogs, he is hot and it is sad that unless he finds someway to sell his soul, he wont get signed. thats why i got crazy respect for you just based on the fact that you come in and talk to the people in your blog. most people wouldnt even do that cause they have stupid egos. regardless of who works at that station with you, i got love for you miss minya info.

the crowd is too harsh to her but the fact is jay z must have not been thinking to clear to sign just yet (even)she would need to prove herself a lot more to me according to her myspace hype she dropped a few verses and got a deal maybe a bit of overhype but she still she got in easy and yes she is not that big in the uk at all and she would need to be a stronger person to make it and the rap game and for me if i was going sell her records it would be aimed at dennis the menace style kidds at school and certainly not the crowd we saw right there

fuck the mainstream and America. She shouldn’t have gone to America, America is not tolerant of ‘real-ness’. Look at all the real rappers in America right now, they are struggling to get people to know them. They are starting to get big, but I think it would be better for her if she started from an indie label in Britian. America is a bad market for real hiphop with a British Accent. Too many ignants here. They want to hear you talking about killing people or sleeping with your friend’s boyfriend. You never hear of any female rock stars, or hiphop stars getting big in America. I said it before and I’ll say it again, the best she could do is move back to Britian and get signed there.

I feel sorry for her. I never understood why she got signed with Jay-Z and his lame ass. Grime just doesn’t work in America. First, its the accent barrier. many people don’t understand what the hell you are sayin when you are speaking normally, so imagine how hard it is when you are rapping quickly. Second, these days no one gives a damn if you are telling the truth. They want to hear the same old bullshit about cars and clothes; the sell-out music for the sell-out crowd. Third, Grime is really popular in the UK, why the hell would you move to America of all places? Yeah you make it big in America, but that’s the worst place to bring something new. Stay in Britian, someone has to tell her. lol.

lady sov take a break! the U.S aint ready for you and grime as yet. Jay-z pay the girl thats and what i heard her say why! She did not want to do the show theres a reason theres hardly a day when shes not doing a show
Sov has been put in at the deep end and cant not swim she needs time to see america even before doing all of this, not a good gameplan at all i still think she is for younger crowd to convert if played right and at that she could be one of the top euro artists soon for a long time

ps for a long time there have been too many UK artists trying sound like there from the US now there are some artists that sound like where there from we connect with that so BACK UP if you dont like how they sound they are what they are! big up – kano, dizze ras ,s.a.s
klashnekoff, and skinnyman
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